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Do you own the freehold? If not you will have to have permission from the freeholder, and he/she/it will likely want payment as well. They would normally ask for a percentage of the uplift in value of your flat.

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That seems fairly straightforward: you can't rent out the property. You could probably have a lodger as that is a licence rather than a tenancy, but you would still have to be in residence.
Looks like they are trying to discourage buy-to-let investors. Did you get this property on some kind of...

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The service charge has increased every year since the inception of the building.

The new directors approved the budget for this year but there were no minutes about it (just an exchange of emails between the directors and the agent). Is a record of such conversations supposed to be filed...

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I have queried this with the MA. Their reply was "There have been no meetings and the previous directors didn't give us any minutes". Bear in mind the MA has been our company secretary for 20 years and charged additional fees for this....

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"If we decide to build, we will work with you to ensure that there is minimal impact to the aesthetics of the properties, and we will fully re-instate any surface that is disrupted as part of this work if we cause any."
(from the link above)

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We were astonished to find our forthcoming agents include certain items as part of their fixed fee that we have been paying extra for. Now we are learning that is normal practice and we have probably been overpaying for the past 20 years.
As...

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The previous directors will not communicate with us and one of them also had an undeclared conflict of interest, with a large financial stake in the management agency. This leads me to suspect the additional fees schedule was deliberately set up to take advantage of the naivety of the non-agency-connected...

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Sorry, I should have been more clear. Our managing agent was formerly our company secretary, for which we were charged an annual fee specified under "additional services" in the contract. We terminated them as company secretary earlier this year; however they are claiming they are still owed...

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eagle2 Is there any precedent that states an "annual fee" must be paid in full even if that particular service (e.g. Company Secretary) is terminated a few months into the year? (And no related duties were actually carried out in the year in question?)